G06Q 20/06
Private payment circuits
Official title: Private payment circuits, e.g. involving electronic currency used among participants of a common payment scheme
G06Q20/06 (Private payment circuits) appears on 4,024 US grants and 7,286 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06Q- Granted patents
- 4,024
- Published applications
- 7,286
- Assignees
- 2,072
- Inventors
- 9,743
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 33 | 0 |
| 2000 | 20 | 0 |
| 2001 | 14 | 17 |
| 2002 | 28 | 53 |
| 2003 | 11 | 50 |
| 2004 | 13 | 40 |
| 2005 | 16 | 40 |
| 2006 | 19 | 44 |
| 2007 | 21 | 63 |
| 2008 | 21 | 67 |
| 2009 | 21 | 51 |
| 2010 | 31 | 59 |
| 2011 | 37 | 52 |
| 2012 | 46 | 52 |
| 2013 | 50 | 67 |
| 2014 | 43 | 104 |
| 2015 | 39 | 136 |
| 2016 | 41 | 151 |
| 2017 | 55 | 227 |
| 2018 | 59 | 283 |
| 2019 | 144 | 610 |
| 2020 | 264 | 902 |
| 2021 | 416 | 812 |
| 2022 | 571 | 799 |
| 2023 | 523 | 811 |
| 2024 | 593 | 796 |
| 2025 | 520 | 595 |
| 2026 | 320 | 405 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System, method, and application for exchanging content in a social network environment6 Oct 2026US 12,755,256 B2Adeia Media Holdings LLC
- Decentralized network with near instantaneous terminal transfers6 Oct 2026US 12,755,260 B2NCR Atleos Corporation
- Universal payment channel6 Oct 2026US 12,755,261 B2Visa International Service Association
- Architectures, systems and methods having segregated secure and public functions29 Sep 2026US 12,748,979 B2Milestone Entertainment, LLC
- Systems and methods for democratically sending a capital medium via devices with computational capabilities29 Sep 2026US 12,749,112 B2
- Unified digital platform for lifecycle management of non-fungible tokens8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311148 A1Paypal, Inc.
- Partially-mined gold deposit tokenization and token transformation management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311149 A1NatGold Digital Ltd.
- Asset-backed digital tokens8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311150 A1Precidian Investments, LLC
- Information processing system, information processing method, and node device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311177 A1Yenpoint Inc.
- Method for carrying out a transaction relating to at least one non-fungible token uniquely associated with a physical product8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311195 A1Aura Blockchain Consortium
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection3,563US 5,892,900 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Trusted agents for open electronic commerce1,044US 5,557,518 ACitibank, N. A. · 1996
- System for secured credit card transactions on the internet953US 5,956,699 AJaesent Inc. · 1999
- Electronic-monetary system886US 5,453,601 ACitibank, N. A. · 1995
- Pre-paid card system and method596US 5,577,109 ACall Processing, Inc. · 1996